Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1887-03-03

is well known in this county. AS Il lawyer,
he is the peer Of any in the territory, and
cases entrusted to him will be vigorously
and ably prosecuted.
q. A. DeLorimier. Oft. Z. Power & Bros,
TT. Benton house, arrived IN town last
Monday evening, and will ill IA position in
the same firms store here during the
absence of Mr.. Erickson, who goes east
Tomorrow to purchase new stock. Mr..
Del.orimier H. acknowledged to be one of
the best dry goods men in the territory.
and il is possible h.. will remain here with
T. &. Power x Bro, in charge of the dry
goods department.
The long delayed chinook reached us
last Saturday, and settled down To bust
Hess at once. as If working by contract.
The might shift was fully rs STRONG as
that Of the day and tine accumulated white
stun which has been immortalzed in poetry
and song, began to rapidly disappear from
hilltops and bench lands, valleys and
coulees. The chinook though delinquent,
is hailed with pleasure by our cattle and
sheep men. Though there are losses yet to
follow, the continuation Of cold weather
and snow through the month of March
would he "a misfortune too serious To con-
template.
A difficulty occurred at Sherman's stable
Sunday last between couple of jehus.
Ed Pardee and Vim. Gordon. They were
standing talking to each other when Pardee
- If
Gordon turned around, drew his knife
seeing which Pardee started to run but
Gordon cut him twice in the arm and once
in the shoulder before he could get out of
the way, inilicting "a severe wound. Par'lee
has been holding the lines ON the Neihart
route while Gordon drives between this
point and Diamond city. The difficulty is
alleged To he the result of an old feud.
Gordon was arraigned before Judge Abbot
and was held to appear before the grand
jury March %, his bond being set at $500.
| in default of which he went to jail.-IIus-
bandman.
1--WE think really the sheep interest viii
suffer IA greater loss than cattle. '--Gazet te.
Your thinking apparatus is not in good
repair. The LOSSES in this county will not
avcra g over 20 per cent. at most. In some
Z instances the loss will be- very heavy owing
/ to poor management and neglect to provide
II good supply Of hay in the fall. Wool
growers have banked too much on winter
range feeding until they were caught nap
ping-at least some were. This winter has
( been AN rye-opaner to growers, and one
that they will profit by in the futu As
n well known sheep man remarked in reply
( To- the ,lun-stun whether he had thought OF
any safer plans for the future: "The only
thing to be done is tn gauge our sheep bands
by our hay stacks, and prepare for six
! weeks of feeding"
Mr.. :. W. Langhorne, register of the T.. :.
hand office at Helena, has issued a notice
to land attorneys and claimants, as fol-
lows: AS this dist rict seems to he Hooded
with al kinds of blank forms for making
all kinds of entries proofs, ailidavits, etc,
some oi which are true copies oi the pre-
-cribed Official forms. while others are not,
il has become necessary for this office tn
notify attorneys and claimants, preparing
such papers that none will he recognized
except those which follow the required or
prescribed forms. Homestead and timber
culture applicants etc. ii made on any but
regularly furnished blanks, will hereafter
be rejected. Claimants can at all times
procure the prescribed forms upon appli-
cation to the district land office"
Cattle are eating sage brush and appear
to relish i, very much. This il sign that
they are becoming thoroughly native-the
only thing they now need to cultivate is the
cayuse taste for cottonwood bark, and
then We winds can blow Stockgrowers
journal. Think oi the idiot who wrote
the above, eating three square meals day
and then congratulating cattle on THEN
/ feast of sage brush. lie says iii is IA sign
they are becoming thoroughly native" 1t
is IA sign they are becoming Thoroughly
hungry and about hall of them Thoroughly
dead. The only thing they now need il
the csyusc taste for cottonwood bark,
( then the winds can blow their hair of
/ And ii it was not for corrosion they might
eat "a barbed wire fence occasionally Ia
] F'"' ~" w s"'' 'Pb''i''H. 'ottoh"oo'i
! fir and hull pine will soon be in demand for
fodder, according to the Journal philoso-
pher and humanitarian.
special to the Independent tells 81 I,
wind storm at Fort Magnnis which reached
velocity Of eighty miles an hour. We.
locity, as we understand the word means
speed. Very few people have an idea OF
speed. The average western passenger
train makes about Is to 30 miles an hour
usually about as fast as the ordinary
cayuse might run for "a mile. The best
time ON record for IA horse is l:39a by u
Kentucky thoroughbred. The greatest
attainable rate of speed down an incline
/ Of l in 30 with no load and S-foot driving
wheels is 81 miles an hour, and it is barely
possible that with such big wheel the
machine might tip over. Now, this little
! item ON speed means simply that we dis
credit the wind business of eighty miles an
hour. however aut hentic the source, comm;
as it does from Il government fort where
their instruments are generally of the most
approved patterns -Mssoulian.